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Geek Heresy

Author : Kentaro Toyama
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395298
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Geek Heresy written by Kentaro Toyama and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for under-resourced urban schools and developed digital platforms for remote agrarian communities. But after a decade of designing technologies for humanitarian causes, Toyama concluded that no technology, however dazzling, could cause social change on its own. Technologists and policy-makers love to boast about modern innovation, and in their excitement, they exuberantly tout technology's boon to society. But what have our gadgets actually accomplished? Over the last four decades, America saw an explosion of new technologies – from the Internet to the iPhone, from Google to Facebook – but in that same period, the rate of poverty stagnated at a stubborn 13%, only to rise in the recent recession. So, a golden age of innovation in the world's most advanced country did nothing for our most prominent social ill. Toyama's warning resounds: Don't believe the hype! Technology is never the main driver of social progress. Geek Heresy inoculates us against the glib rhetoric of tech utopians by revealing that technology is only an amplifier of human conditions. By telling the moving stories of extraordinary people like Patrick Awuah, a Microsoft millionaire who left his lucrative engineering job to open Ghana's first liberal arts university, and Tara Sreenivasa, a graduate of a remarkable South Indian school that takes children from dollar-a-day families into the high-tech offices of Goldman Sachs and Mercedes-Benz, Toyama shows that even in a world steeped in technology, social challenges are best met with deeply social solutions.

Early Childhood Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522575081
Total Pages : 1623 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Early Childhood Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 1623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A focus on the developmental progress of children before the age of eight helps to inform their future successes, including their personality, social behavior, and intellectual capacity. However, it is difficult for experts to pinpoint best learning and parenting practices for young children. Early Childhood Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is an innovative reference source for the latest research on the cognitive, socio-emotional, physical, and linguistic development of children in settings such as homes, community-based centers, health facilities, and school. Highlighting a range of topics such as cognitive development, parental involvement, and school readiness, this multi-volume book is designed for educators, healthcare professionals, parents, academicians, and researchers interested in all aspects of early childhood development.

Deconstructing the Education-Industrial Complex in the Digital Age

Author : Loveless, Douglas
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 152252102X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis Deconstructing the Education-Industrial Complex in the Digital Age by : Loveless, Douglas

Download or read book Deconstructing the Education-Industrial Complex in the Digital Age written by Loveless, Douglas and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in the education field are affected by numerous, and often conflicting, social, cultural, and economic factors. With the increasing corporatization of education, teaching and learning paradigms are continuously altered. Deconstructing the Education-Industrial Complex in the Digital Age is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the shifting structure of school models in response to technological advances and corporate presence in educational contexts. Highlighting a comprehensive range of pertinent topics, such as teacher education, digital literacy, and neoliberalism, this book is ideally designed for educators, professionals, graduate students, researchers, and academics interested in the implications of the education-industrial complex.

Reimagining Global Philanthropy

Author : Kirk Bowman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553439
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Global Philanthropy written by Kirk Bowman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-meaning Westerners want to find ways to help the less fortunate. Today, many are not just volunteering abroad and donating to international nonprofits but also advancing innovations and launching projects that aim to be socially transformative. However, often these activities are not efficient ways of helping others, and too many projects cause more harm than good. Reimagining Global Philanthropy shares the journey of a conservative banker and a progressive professor to find a better way forward. Kirk S. Bowman and Jon R. Wilcox explain the boom in the global compassion industry, revealing the incentives that produce inefficient practices and poor outcomes. Instead of supporting start-up projects with long-shot hopes for success, they argue, we can dramatically improve results by empowering local leaders. Applying lessons from the success of community banks, Bowman and Wilcox develop and implement a new model that significantly raises philanthropic efficacy. Their straightforward and rigorously tested approach calls for community members to take the lead while outside partners play a supporting role. Bowman and Wilcox recount how they tested the model in Brazil, demonstrating the value of giving people in marginalized communities the opportunity to innovate. In a time of widespread social reckoning, this book shows how global philanthropy can confront its blind spots and failures in order to achieve truly transformative outcomes. Readers can access five of the documentary films discussed in the book on a companion website. In addition to the films, chapter discussion questions and other supplemental materials are also available at the site.

Disrupt This!

Author : Karen J. Head
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 151260092X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Disrupt This! written by Karen J. Head and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this smart and incisive work, Karen J. Head describes her experience teaching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and the attendant pressure on professors, especially those in the humanities, to embrace new technologies in the STEM era. And yet, as she argues, MOOCs are just the latest example of the near-religious faith that some universities have in the promise of technological advances. As a teacher of rhetoric, Head is well versed at sniffing out the sophistry embedded in the tech jargon increasingly rife in the academy. Disrupt This! is a broader-based critique of the promises of technological "disruption" and the impact of Silicon Valley thinking on an unsuspecting, ill-prepared, and often gullible university community grasping for relevance, while remaining in thrall to the technologists.

Cases on Innovative and Successful Uses of Digital Resources for Online Learning

Author : Sullivan, Pamela
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799890066
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Cases on Innovative and Successful Uses of Digital Resources for Online Learning written by Sullivan, Pamela and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education at all levels will continue to be dominated by technology for the foreseeable future. The rush to respond to the health concerns of the pandemic led to a mass adoption of online learning tools without careful consideration and placement within a conceptual framework that would have occurred prior to adoption in best practice scenarios. Cases on Innovative and Successful Uses of Digital Resources for Online Learning evaluates and describes successful initiatives in remote and hybrid learning during the pandemic disruption to traditional schooling for early childhood through college and job training levels. During the pandemic disruption, remote and hybrid tools were adopted rapidly without the benefit of careful utilization. This text conducts that careful consideration in the past tense. Covering topics such as artificial intelligence, connected learning, and educational simulation games, this book is an excellent reference for educators of K-12 and higher education, school faculty and administrators, researchers, pre-service teachers, policymakers, and academicians.

Space Fostering African Societies

Author : Annette Froehlich
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030591581
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Space Fostering African Societies written by Annette Froehlich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This peer-reviewed book provides detailed insights into how space and its applications are, and can be used to support the development of the full range and diversity of African societies, as encapsulated in the African Union’s Agenda 2063. Following on from Part 1, which was highly acclaimed by the space community, it focuses on the role of space in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Africa, but covers an even more extensive array of relevant and timely topics addressing all facets of African development. It demonstrates that, while there have been significant achievements in recent years in terms of economic and social development, which have lifted many of Africa’s people out of poverty, there is still a great deal that needs to be done to fulfill the basic needs of Africa's citizens and afford them the dignity they deserve. To this end, space is already being employed in diverse fields of human endeavor to serve Africa’s goals for its future, but there is much room for further incorporation of space systems and data. Providing a comprehensive overview of the role space is playing in helping Africa achieve its developmental aspirations, the book will appeal to both students and professionals in fields such as space studies, international relations, governance, and social and rural development.

Prosper!

Author : Chris Martenson
Publisher : RDA Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1937832775
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Prosper! written by Chris Martenson and published by RDA Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Next 20 Years Will Be Completely Different From The Past Current global trends are bleak: weak economic growth, too much debt, declining incomes for the lower 99%, a dangerous addiction to fossil fuels, and ecological destruction – just to name a few. Many of us understandably feel resigned to an eroding standard of living in the years to come. At best. But what if we told you that there are specific, attainable steps you can take today that can limit your vulnerability to these trends and help you be: - Richer - Live with greater purpose - Healthier - More valued by others - Happier - Safer from harm That’s exactly what Prosper! offers: a blueprint for taking control of and improving your destiny. It outlines practical, actionable investments of your time & resources that will ensure you enjoy greater prosperity in your life, whatever the future may bring. In Prosper!, Martenson and Taggart will explain: - The trends mostly likely to shape your life over the next 20 years - Why developing resilience offers your best chance for thriving, even though society may suffer from the changes these trends may bring - How to build true wealth - What specific actions to take now to secure a prosperous future, no matter what the future holds - How everybody can benefit from this guidance, regardless of age, income or ability How we can best serve the next generation by the actions we take today Prosper! is the highly anticipated follow-up to Martenson’s acclaimed book The Crash Course (Wiley, 2011)

Superheroes Can’t Save You

Author : Todd Miles
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 146275080X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Superheroes Can’t Save You written by Todd Miles and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic superheroes embody the hopes of a world that is desperate for a savior. But those comic creations cannot save us from our greatest foes—sin and death. Throughout the history of the Church there have been bad ideas, misconceptions, and heretical presentations of Jesus. Each one of these heresies fails to present Jesus as the Bible reveals him. In Superheroes Can’t Save You, Todd Miles demonstrates how these ancient heresies are embodied in contemporary comic superheroes. Miles compares something everybody already knows (who the superheroes are) with what they need to know (who Jesus is), in a book that makes vitally important Christian truths understandable and applicable to a wide audience.

The Horus Heresy: The Buried Dagger

Author : James Swallow
Publisher : Games Workshop
ISBN 13 : 9781781939703
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book The Horus Heresy: The Buried Dagger written by James Swallow and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 54 in the New York Times Bestselling series The Horus Heresy. Discover the last battles leading to the Siege of Terra... The skies darken over Terra as the final battle for the Throne looms ever closer... As the Traitor primarchs muster to the Warmaster’s banner, it is Mortarion who is sent ahead as the vanguard of the Traitor forces. But as he and his warriors make way, they become lost in the warp and stricken by a terrible plague. Once thought of as unbreakable, the legendary Death Guard are brought to their knees. To save his Legion, Mortarion must strike a most terrible bargain that will damn his sons for eternity. Meanwhile, in the cloisters of Holy Terra, a plot is afoot to create sedition and carnage in advance of the Horus’s armies. Taking matters into his own hands, Malcador the Sigillite seeks to put a stop to any insurrection but discovers a plot that he will need all of his cunning and battle-craft to overcome.

Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology With Literacy Pedagogies

Author : Sullivan, Pamela M.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799802477
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology With Literacy Pedagogies written by Sullivan, Pamela M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The allure and marketplace power of digital technologies continues to hold sway over the field of education with billions spent annually on technology in the United States alone. Literacy instruction at all levels is influenced by these evolving and ever-changing tools. While this opens the door to innovations in literacy curricula, it also adds a pedagogical responsibility to operate within a well-developed conceptual framework to ensure instruction is complemented or augmented by technology and does not become secondary to it. The Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology With Literacy Pedagogies is a comprehensive research publication that considers the integration of digital technologies in all levels of literacy instruction and prepares the reader for inevitable technological advancements and changes. Covering a wide range of topics such as augmented reality, literacy, and online games, this book is essential for educators, administrators, IT specialists, curriculum developers, instructional designers, teaching professionals, academicians, researchers, education stakeholders, and students.

Changing Jobs

Author : Mike Quigley
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 192543589X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Changing Jobs written by Mike Quigley and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential guide to the future of work in Australia. For many Australians, rapid progress in artificial intelligence, robotics and automation is a growing anxiety. What will it mean for jobs? What will it mean for their kids’ futures? More broadly, what will it mean for equality in this country? Jim Chalmers and Mike Quigley believe that bursts in technology need not result in bursts of inequality, that we can combine technological change with the fair go. But first we need to understand what’s happening to work, and what’s likely to happen. This is a timely, informative and authoritative book about the changing face of work, and how best to approach it – at both a personal and a political level. Jim Chalmers is a Labor MP and Shadow Minister for Finance. Before being elected to parliament, Jim was the chief of staff to the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer. He has a PhD in political science and international relations and is the author of Glory Daze (2013). Mike Quigley spent 36 years with the major global telecommunications company Alcatel, including three years as its president and COO. He was the first employee of the Australian NBN company and its CEO for four years. He is now adjunct professor in the School of Computing and Communications at UTS.

The Buried Dagger

Author : James Swallow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780308517
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Buried Dagger written by James Swallow and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Snowball System

Author : Mo Bunnell
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610399595
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Snowball System written by Mo Bunnell and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mo Bunnell's comprehensive system will help you win more clients, build stronger relationships, and bring in more business. If you're good at doing something, and you need to connect with paying clients in order to keep doing it, this book is for you. There are more of us out there than you might think--from professionals like lawyers and consultants to big company account managers and freelancers of all stripes. And this book will teach you how to sell yourself without selling your soul. In The Snowball System, Mo Bunnell offers powerful and proven tools for business development. Whether you are gregarious or introverted, whether you are a part of a small startup or a massive multinational, Bunnell's science-based system is effective and efficient, and easily adapted into your day-to-day work. With The Snowball System, you will not only succeed at growing your business, you'll learn to enjoy doing the activities that drive that growth. You'll be happier, and so will your clients.

Computers and Society

Author : Ronald M. Baecker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192562029
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Computers and Society written by Ronald M. Baecker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last century has seen enormous leaps in the development of digital technologies, and most aspects of modern life have changed significantly with their widespread availability and use. Technology at various scales - supercomputers, corporate networks, desktop and laptop computers, the internet, tablets, mobile phones, and processors that are hidden in everyday devices and are so small you can barely see them with the naked eye - all pervade our world in a major way. Computers and Society: Modern Perspectives is a wide-ranging and comprehensive textbook that critically assesses the global technical achievements in digital technologies and how are they are applied in media; education and learning; medicine and health; free speech, democracy, and government; and war and peace. Ronald M. Baecker reviews critical ethical issues raised by computers, such as digital inclusion, security, safety, privacy,automation, and work, and discusses social, political, and ethical controversies and choices now faced by society. Particular attention is paid to new and exciting developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the issues that have arisen from our complex relationship with AI.

Is Technology Good for Education?

Author : Neil Selwyn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745696503
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Is Technology Good for Education? written by Neil Selwyn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’. Is Technology Good For Education? offers a critical counterpoint to this received wisdom, challenging some of the central ways in which digital technology is presumed to be positively affecting education. Instead Neil Selwyn considers what is being lost as digital technologies become ever more integral to education provision and engagement. Crucially, he questions the values, agendas and interests that stand to gain most from the rise of digital education. This concise, up-to-the-minute analysis concludes by considering alternate approaches that might be capable of rescuing and perhaps revitalizing the ideals of public education, while not denying the possibilities of digital technology altogether.

Learning Technologies in the Workplace

Author : Donald H Taylor
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0749476478
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Learning Technologies in the Workplace written by Donald H Taylor and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge was once power - difficult to find, slow to transmit and coveted. Now we can access almost the sum total of human information with a swipe of our thumbs. The impact on the knowledge economy has been vast, leaving learning and development (L&D) professionals wondering how to keep pace. Many organizations naturally turn to technology to ensure workplace learning at scale and at speed, but stumble when it comes to successfully deploying and using it. Learning Technologies in the Workplace examines 16 years of learning technology implementations to find the secrets behind the most successful. Examples in the book from the Hershey Company and BP, airlines, tech companies and manufacturers point to four common factors. Successful learning technology teams all have APPA: a clear aim, a people focus, a wide perspective and a pragmatic, can-do attitude. Learning Technologies in the Workplace gives readers practical pointers for each of these four points, helping them implement and use learning technologies well, with particular emphasis on the essential skill of identifying stakeholders and winning their support.